angere

angere [CL] 1 to crush. b to harass, distress. c (pass.) to take pains (over). fictilis olla / rupta fit in testas, dum lapis angit eas Gower VC VII 138. b anthletam Domini ‥ / udis et crudis nervorum nexibus angens Aldh. VirgV 1191; spiritus ‥ circumdederunt me atque ‥ de ore ‥ ignem putidum effiantes ~ebant Bede HE V 12; juste ~itur reus Dei inter malum et pejus Anselm (Or. 8) III 28; dum te mortis timor continuus ~eret Gir. GE II 20. c id ego semper ~ebar, quare huic studio forem attentior Adel. QN intr. p. 4. 2 (pr. ppl.) grievous. b (as sb.) briar, bramble. angens sceptri ludibrium J. Howd. Cyth. 30. b anguens, breer GlC A 576; 10‥ anguens, bremel WW.

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